
TOKYO: An advisory panel Thursday morning approved the Japanese government’s plan to fully end its COVID-19 state of emergency on Sunday as scheduled.
The emergency, introduced on Jan. 8, now covers Tokyo and the three neighboring prefectures of Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa.
The government’s COVID-19 response task force is scheduled to meet at 5:30 p.m. (8:30 a.m. GMT) to make a final decision to remove the emergency. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is set to meet the press at 7 p.m.
JIJI Press